Hmmmm, so secondly today, still involving twitter, I found myself perusing the most influential people I follow and taking the time to look at their latest posts to see if any of them were worth retweeting. A few of them were and some were even left open enough that they inspired a bit of a debate. The moment of fruition that I found was when I got a reply from one of them. I don't take this lightly as I had first learned of this person after googling: top 10 hackers.
@Extraceptional Sure thing.
— Adrián Lamo (@6) November 20, 2013
I just couldn't believe that someone of that stature would have the time to bother replying to me but oh well, maybe I'm worth more than I thought. Interesting. Keep going.So after that I attempted to install some games on an old 350 Mhz tower that I drug out of the stacks of ancient hardware that I sit around with so that this other flat-screen monitor that I happened to have come across could be of some use and possibly light up and entertain somewhat. After many failed attempts at converting .flv videos to a workable format, the archaic video playing software finally began acting as I had hoped and begun playing a documentary that I had wanted to watch off to the side. Great success, or so I thought and then fail. Retry, fail. Everytime, it seamed, no matter which video format I had tried on multiple videos it seams that 30 seconds in it just crashes. FML Next up I figured, why not try and get the old original Sims game to play. I got the .ISO to fit onto a thumb drive, ported it over and then it asked for a CD key. Found it, installed. Success, time to run this thing and put in the code so I can build my little virtual people a house to live in while I go about my business but...fail. Kept crashing. 2/2, not bad, this feels like familiar territory. So finally I figured I could at least watch the intro screens on an F-Zero Rom for a SNES emulator over and over but that gets old faster than an unchecked bag of Cheetos. I'll have to find a better idea on what to do with this near-worthless box until I manage to find the time to come across another 50 feet of Ethernet cable because if I remember right I could then at least listen to the full movies and documentaries that they have on youtube at 5fpm(frames per minute, not frames per second, this thing is that close to the junkyard). If the vidz I had attempted to port over had actually worked as intended I would most likely be listening/half-watching a plethora of hacker documentaries while writing this, bishing about my inability to properly get The Sims to cooperate. Alas the fight is not over yet. As exausted as the attempts I have made at these two operations may feel at their present moment I know that I must continue to try other ways to get them to work. Possibly try porting over an alternative video player software or .ISO mounter. I think for the time being though I will just have to watch the original Mario Kart in action. I'm sure there was a better SNES rom that acted as a screen saver that I'm forgetting yet. Leave a comment if you have any ideas popping into mind.
Then you have my friend Steve on the other hand, who seams to have actually accomplished something with his time today. Just check it out.
The whole entire time I was trying to get something happening with that old computer, I'm talking to him on Skype about his latest project. It appears to be some king of camera/cell-phone mount to be used for a top-down view made out of Kinex. He does a lot of cool stuff. Be sure to check out: http://www.stevenjacks.com to see what kind of crazy stuff he does with it as there is sure to be something new up by the time you read this :D
-Extraceptional 11/21/2013
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